Big Little Truths

The HBO series Big Little Lies is a soap opera slathered in a thick coating of California gloss, and it’s impressively addictive. It might even, like Game of Thrones, introduce hordes of new readers to the author of the book on which it is based, Liane Moriarty, although hundreds of thousands of Americans are already pretty enthusiastic about her. In 2014, they sent Big Little Lies, her sixth novel, to the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list, even as her fifth book, The Husband’s Secret, still in hardcover, lingered in the top 20. This achievement, the first for an Australian, provoked marvel in her homeland, where her success had been comparatively modest. Continue reading at 'Slate'

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From Ducks to Bells: Religion Publishers Trumpet Big Books at BEA

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More people are buying more books than ever, and more people are making a living by writing them. Why do millionaire authors want to destroy the one company that's made this all possible?As an author of ten novels legacy-published, self-published, and Amazon-published I'm bewildered by the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dig In: Four Wild Recipes from Barton G. Weiss's 'The Big Dish'

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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